A Georgia man who conned collectors by peddling counterfeit horror-movie posters was sentenced to the maximum 6 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay his victims $1.38 million in Manhattan federal court yesterday.

“This guy is the Bernie Madoff of the movie-poster industry,” victim Robert Rogovin, 65, said of Kerry Haggard.

Rogovin, a Scarsdale comic-shop owner, spent $20,000 on three pieces faked by Haggard.

“He’s a piece of human garbage,” he added.

Haggard worked his scam by paying a New York City printing company to make high-quality ink-jet copies of horror-movie posters of such classics as “The Mummy” and “Frankenstein.”

The 47-year-old would then sell the fakes to trusting collectors via such sites as eBay for prices ranging from $500 to $5,000.

Haggard, who now suffers from arthritis and walks with a cane, even ripped off close friends.

Jim Gresham, 59, became so close with Haggard the two men would talk several times a week and even went on a European cruise together with their wives.

But, all along, Haggard was trading his fake posters for Gresham’s authentic ones — like kids do with baseball cards — scamming the betrayed man out of $712,000.

One was an ultra-rare poster of 1935’s “Werewolf of London” flick.

“He ate our food, he came to church with us, and he stabbed me in the back,” the Michigan snowplow-business owner thundered in court.

“I put our retirement money into posters because it seemed safe. It was safe — until Kerry Haggard came along.”

When the judge adjourned court, the half-dozen gathered victims broke into applause and one gleefully shouted, “See you later, Kerry!”